Good point, Carol. Here we are in the midst of a serious recession. We aren't growing an economy to keepm up[ with its own needs. Our educational system is a mess and getting messier with rich folks wanting to bleed it with "vouchers". Our inner cities are a mess and getting messier. Our forieng policy is in chaos with much agruement within the administration. And Bush thinks that a big old cash grab fir his friends is what America needs. Hmmmmmm?

And now we hear the the Department of Homeland Security Act provides for the spying on state legislators? Yeah, like I'm real scared of my local guy, Dale Manuel, strapping' on explosives and walking into the Martinsburg Cinema! Give me a break! This is obviously another ploy toward forced conformity, which does not bode well for the success of democracy.

And what about the "pussy-dick" (excuse my French) mentality of the American people. Boy, oh, boy! We've become a tabloid driven nation of uninformed sheep. This also does not bode well for democracy. But, hey, those folks in control consider democracy to be a nuissance, anyway, don't they?

Beam me up...

Bobert